This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from January 11, 2006via Wise Law Blog: Unborn Baby not a Person - Arizona Car Pool Judge https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2006/01/unborn-baby-not-person-arizona-car.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
CAN-PCC has put out a survey on its draft of recommendations for Long Covid (PCC = Post Covid Condition) that anyone can comment on. They're asking us for evidence of…
Damaged apartment block in Kyiv. Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/UNDP Ukraine/Flickr. Back in 1997, when Canada still had a more or less independent foreign policy, the Canadian government celebra...
Thanks, Justin!Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday a suite of new measures meant to alleviate some of the affordability pressures people have been experiencing in the post-COVID era — including…
As Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government continues to flood the zone with daily news releases announcing dubious and dangerous policy changes, it’s very hard to keep up and provide measured…
When proportional representation (PR) is presented as an alternative to our badly flawed first-past-the-post (FPTP)... The post Poilievre’s my way or the highway on housing first appeared on Views from…
Mr. Trudeau apparently thinks that because if seems to work for Doug Ford, it might work for him -vote-buying, that is.You can read the full details here.Meanwhile, Theo Moudakis encapsulates…
These are my summary notes from this excellent podcast from Andrea Pitzer on Next Comes What, "How We Survive This Mess." Pitzer previous wrote a history of concentration camps, One…
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Photo by Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agência Brasil/Flickr. As world leaders met in Rio de Janeiro for the G20 summit on November 19, Brazil’s Federal Pol...
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sarah Johnson reports on Unicef's warning that children will face far more extreme heatwaves and other dangerous weather events in the decades to…
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump nominates former Michigan congressman Pete Hoekstra to be ambassador to Canada #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/zklLizpei0 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Kamala Harris speaking with attendees at the 2019 Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr. Red lines? What red lines? If anyone…
Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that beneficiary's property on the day the insured dies. They don't become part of the insured’s Estate and they are not subjected…
Photo: Ignacio YuferaI've learned that the image of a macaque monkey that I posted was not the kind of monkey that is being illegally trafficked in Canada. That image was…
CBC calls out the Conservatives version of "freedom":Christian Noel / CBC Poilievre's office maintains tight control over what Conservative MPs say and do Party staffers monitor caucus for signs of…
Make no mistake, with the appointment this morning of Stephen Harper as chair of the governing board of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. we can forget about the notion that…
What I write sometimes makes people angry. Right and Left. Here’s what I’ve noticed. It’s interesting. I write about different stuff. Politics, music, culture, whatever. People react. Sometimes I take…
Stephen Harper meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, February 20, 2024. Photo by Kobi Gideon/Office of the President of Israel/X. A Toronto Sun editorial recently pr...
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jake Johnson writes about the growing recognition that we'll never avert a climate breakdown by putting all action at the mercy of petrostates and…
